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First Line: The flowers are blooming in the woods, the
Last Line: "when the sun goes down, if I can chase myself to town, to see the movie shows."
Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Towns; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


THE flowers are blooming in the woods, the daffodils and kindred goods, the
cowslip and the rose; and, as I do my office task, I wish that I could go and
bask among such things as those. Oh, it would surely be sublime, upon a fragrant

bank of thyme, for drowsy hours to rest; to revel in the wholesome breeze, and
pluck the toadstools from the trees, and rob a hornet's nest. But now a farmer
comes to town—a man whose residence is down where buds are bathed in dew;
all day he sees the posies grow, all day he feels the zephyrs blow his flowing
sideboards through. And when I'd talk, in burning words, of bumblebees and bats

and birds, and other woodland things, he looks at me as though he feels that my

fat head is full of wheels, and cranks and rusty springs. He interrupts my glad

harangue, and says, "I do not give a dang for cowslip or for rose; I'm happy,
when the sun goes down, if I can chase myself to town, to see the movie shows."





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